Boris Johnson and Tony Blair at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, on November 14, 2021. TOBY MELVILLE via Getty ImagesSir Tony Blair has refused to call for Boris Johnson to resign over partygate, saying he could “understand how these things happen”. The former Labour prime minister declined to join his successor Sir Keir Starmer in calling for Johnson to step down over parties at Downing Street during lockdown. I can also, from the perspective of Downing Street, understand how these things happen. I don’t really want to get into the business of whether people should resign or not resign and so on.

Source: Huffington Post January 16, 2022 13:58 UTC